this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2024
783 points (99.7% liked)
Privacy
32442 readers
946 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's not for your security. It's for the company's security. You're really dense you know that. This is not about you and it's not about Google. What I'm saying is, people suck ass. So to protect themselves from people sucking ass, they restrict access to their system to their terms. Completely fair if you ask me.
You can go cry Google bad all you want. I might even agree Google is bad. But this is not a Google thing. It's an IT security thing. The banks and MFA providers are security first businesses. They will make the decision that protect them first and it makes sense for them to do so. If you owned a bank, there is a high likelihood you would make similar decisions that end users don't quite understand.
As far as McDonald's is concerned, who the fuck knows what their developers are doing. That app is trash anyways.
perhaps dial back the attitude a bit there? if you think you know better than someone (even if you're wrong), then you should have no trouble kindly educating instead of insulting them.
you may also wish to revisit your highly questionable claim that graphene properly configured on pixel is less secure than stock rom on some random android device.
It's not questionable at all to assume that a user rooting and installing their own OS is a security risk. That's the entire premise of zero trust. I'm sure Graphene OS is secure and better for user privacy when configured properly. But you can't trust that an end user will configure it properly. That's what I am saying and have been saying since the first message. You can't trust the user to be security minded. Ultimately, the best thing you can do as a developer or a business is support a known quantity of software and hardware configurations and that likely means only supporting OEM installed ROMs.
that's great buddy. but while recapping basic IT facts might make you feel smart on facebook. this is lemmy where the average user ^1^ is perfectly familiar the principles. here it just telegraphs to us that you didn't read the fucking article (which would've taken less time than spamming the thread & insulting users btw).
^1^ before the influx of reddit api refugees - on that topic do you ever reflect on how corporate bootlicking might relate to the over-corporatisation of reddit which led to users fleeing? only to come here and do unpaid simping for the corporations, slowly ruining this place too?
K